Electrocuted to death: A case of an autoerotic fatality with body wrapping, anal masochism, and low abdomen mechanical stimulation
Abstract
Autoerotic paraphilic manipulations may be not only incredibly unusual but also hazardous and possibly fatal. Autoerotic experimenters sometimes combine several paraphilic mechanisms, both potentially lethal and non-lethal.
A tragic outcome is usually a direct consequence of the life-threatening paraphilic mechanism(s); how-ever, it may also result from an accidental complication arising from the constellation of the paraphilic reali-zation. In this report, we present a case of an autoerotic death of a 30-year-old man who applied two potentially lethal paraphilic mechanisms-body wrapping and foreign body anal insertion-together with two other non-lethal paraphilic activities, autofetishism and transvestitism.
However, the man's death ultimately occurred due to another associated autoerotic activity-stimulation of the lower abdomen with an electric massager, which accidentally short-circuited and caused fatal electrocution. Such autoerotic fatalities constitute a distinct subcategory of accidental autoerotic death.